Maria Schandorff

Maria Schandorff (22 January 1784 – 27 September 1848) was a Norwegian philanthropist and social educator.

She was the daughter of the merchant Jens Constantin Lasson (1743–1830) and Margrethe Elisabeth Schaar (1754–1828) and married the official Jacob Christlieb Schandorff in 1816. In 1827, she founded Eugenia Stiftelse in Oslo, a strictly religious charity institution for female orphans, which was named after Queen Desideria of Norway and Sweden (Whose full name was Eugenia Bernhardina Desideria), who became the protector of the establishment. The Eugenia Stiftelse orphanage lasted until 1913 and was long traditionally supported by the royal house.